PerfectServe Expands Board of Directors

KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Today, PerfectServe
– healthcare’s only comprehensive and secure communication and
collaboration platform – announced that Robert Rinek, managing director
at Piper Jaffray, and Brant Heise, managing director of Memorial Care
Innovation Fund, have been named to its board of directors.

“Brant’s deep
healthcare experience paired with Robert’s financial and strategic
insight will be instrumental as we continue to drive the company’s
growth and capacity to support the needs for greater care team
collaboration, including the quest to help physician offices, hospital
and health systems meet value-based care demands.”

“We are honored to welcome two well-respected investors to our board of
directors,” said Terry Edwards, PerfectServe CEO. “Brant’s deep
healthcare experience paired with Robert’s financial and strategic
insight will be instrumental as we continue to drive the company’s
growth and capacity to support the needs for greater care team
collaboration, including the quest to help physician offices, hospital
and health systems meet value-based care demands.”

Involved in a variety of investing activities for both for-profit and
not-for-profit organizations over the course of his career, Robert Rinek
brings more than 35 years of investment expertise to PerfectServe.
Joining Piper Jaffray in 1982, he established the firm’s financial
institutions group (“FIG”) and served as global group head of FIG until
December 2007. Having also served on the board of Piper Jaffray
Ventures, Robert helped start a number of venture and equity funds,
including Northern Leasing Fund and Twin Cities Angels. He graduated
from Denison University and earned a master of business administration
degree from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Over the past 20 years, Brant Heise has accumulated experience in
business development and operations in entrepreneurial start-up
companies, physician organizations, community hospitals and academic
medical centers. In addition to his role as managing director of the
MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Brant sits on the board of directors for
several privately held, venture-capital-funded companies within the
MemorialCare Innovation Fund’s investment portfolio, now including
PerfectServe. Additionally, he is also a senior managing director of
Summation Health Ventures. Brant earned a master’s degree in health care
services administration from the University of Michigan, as well as a
bachelor of arts in psychology from Grinnell College.

“PerfectServe has the ability to solve longstanding clinical
communication issues,” said Brant Heise. “Their ability to fix process
problems by improving clinical communication workflow, while solving the
acute challenges associated with reaching people quickly and securely in
healthcare, aligns all of the critical areas of providing patient care.”

PerfectServe Synchrony™, the company’s unified communications and
collaboration solution, allows clinicians to immediately identify and
reach the most appropriate patient care team member so they can address
a patient’s urgent needs quickly and provide the highest quality of
care. By allowing physicians to filter and receive pertinent information
based upon where, when and how they work, physicians are able to respond
more timely and in a way they prefer, increasing their overall
engagement.

About PerfectServePerfectServe provides healthcare’s only
comprehensive and secure communication and collaboration platform. The
company’s flagship solution, PerfectServe Synchrony™, unites physicians,
nurses and other care team members across the continuum and facilitates
timely interaction among them. PerfectServe Synchrony automatically
identifies and provides immediate access to the right care team member,
enabling effective population health management through
communication-driven workflows. More than 100,000 clinicians in
organizations such as Advocate Healthcare, Ascension Health, Covenant
Medical Group, Hoag, MemorialCare Health System, Orlando Health, St.
Joseph Health, and WellStar Health System rely on PerfectServe to help
them speed time to treatment, promote physician alignment, enhance the
consult process, increase transition efficiency, provide nurses more
time for direct patient care and reduce HIPAA compliance risk.
Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, PerfectServe has been serving the
needs of forward-looking health care provider organizations since 2000.
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